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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (September 23, 2025)

  • September 23, 2025

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  1. What’s the difference between でる and でてくる?

    私の友達が今晩ん,テレビに出てきますよ。

    私の友達が今晩ん,テレビに出ますよ。

    Do these not mean the exact same thing? Or is there like a nuance difference?

  2. 考える and 思う both mean to think… why two words for same thing? What’s the difference?

    Is this like cogitate vs think in English?

  3. Does 判子 only refer to the specific type of identifying Japanese stamp, or does it refer to any sort of authority media stamp? I work in manufacturing. After I perform a task I place a stamp on the work document to certify the work is complete (usually digital, but sometimes a physical stamp) containing my employee I.D. and name. This stamp is considered a legal signature. When talking about this in Japanese, do I say 判子, or just スタンプ?

  4. 大きな庭園のそばに住んでいることは, その一帯に鳥の多いことで, 納得させれてはいた

    What does てはいた mean here?

  6. I’ve been learning Japanese on and off for a year, just started a community college type of class. I know that in modern Japanese a lot of words have a tendency to be written in hiragana, but technically most (?) words have a corresponding kanji (e.g., iru 居る, aru 有る, dekiru 出来る, kore 此れ, sore 其れ, are 彼). My question is: does the copula です/だ have a kanji? Please note: I don’t want to learn it so I could use it, I just find the concept of kanji and the Japanese ortography fascinating.

  7. Anybody here taken the computer based 漢字検定? Im wondering how the 部首 section looks. Do you pick from a list of 5 like the ds games? Do you write its name? Do you write just the 部首 as a character?

  9. I’m about 2 months-ish into learning and I felt like I wasn’t going at the pace that I’d of liked from the resources I was using, so I switched over to using Genki. Flipping ahead a bit, I already knew 95+% of the vocab up to around lesson 8, but I would say my grammar is closer to 4/5-ish. What might be the best way to utilize Anki? I’ve never really used it specifically before (most of my vocab came from Renshuu/Bunpro) so I’m not sure if grinding stuff out that I already know is a good use of time.

  10. u/Moon_Atomizer Is something up with this sub? Latest comment that I can see (logged in or not) is from ~10 hours ago even though comment numbers keep increasing.

    Edit: I can see my own comment logged in, but not logged out. Seems like everything is going to the moderation queue?

    2nd edit: Hmm, now _this_ comment is showing up.

  11. Ok I am sorry if this query sounds Foolish.. or better “Looks Foolish”.

    First of all, what inspired me to learn Japanese (& made me fall in love with Japanese culture and Japan as a country)is RGG’s Yakuza Series.

    So here is the query:

    One of the most popular ost of Yakuza game is Baka Mitai.. when I saw the meaning of ばかみたい.. it meant “Looks like a Fool” but out of what I’ve learnt みたい means “I want to see~” so please clear my confusion here!!

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